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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop’r.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
VILLA MAY ORDER RED RE* BILL TO BE PRESENTED TO LEG-
j PRISALS OUT OF REVENGE |j ISLATURE TO ENLARGE COM-
IN MEXICO
GERMANS MUST SAY YES OR NO
BY JUNE 23—NOT A
DAY LATER
MISSION’S POWERS
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY* GA., THURSDAY JUNE, 27 1919
CARRANZA USING INDIANS BRIEF ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE
Mining Companies Have Ordered
| Employees To Leave For
Border Immediately
Condensed Statement Of Interesting
j Events And Happening Through.
! out The State
. El Paso, Texas.—Uneasiness for
t)(ie- safety of American citizens in
northern Mexico is felt here. Be-
[cause of, the expedition by United
States troops into Mexico to disperse
jVilla’s forces attacking Juarez, it is
'feared Villa and his men will attempt
reprisals upon American persons and
[property in the north of Mexico.
| Mormon officials here and in Jua
rez were much concerned over reports
that Vill awas heading toward Casas
Grandes, Chihuahua. This is near the
Mormon colony of Colonia Dublan,
jWhere many Mormon families live.
I Several American mining compa
nies have ordered their American’ em
ployees to leave for the border as
soon as possible. The American
'Smelting and Refining company an
nounced that its employees at Parral,
always a Villa stronghold, had been
[ordered to the border. Orders have
'also been given to the officials and
employees of the Cusi Mining com
pany, a Chicago owned company, at
jCuslhuirlachio, Chihuahua, to leave
at oilce. Other companies have or-
larger towns until Villa’s attitude
dered their men to concentrate in the
towards Americans is definitely as
certained.
Two . thousand Yaqui Indians have
.lieerf'eeht ;o Bfurral^ by Gen. Manuel
r Dieguez, to reinforce that town
which was captured by Villa’s forces
on Easter morning. Following this
information, which was received at
the border, several large mining com
[panies decided to have their men re
main in Parral for the present.
Reports brought from Juarez that
feeling among -the Mexicans wa.<
bitter toward the Americans were
denied by American Consul Edward
A, Pow, who gaid he had been cour
teously treated.
I General Cabell’s statement herg
.hat the expedition to Juarez was a
[closed incident was accepted at its
face value and no further develop-'
inents of that situation are antici :
Ipated. However, it is feared that
Villa or Martin Lopez might attempt
reprisals on isolated American bor
jder towns. To anticipate such a move
Ml garrisons along the border wen
;[Strengthened and the patrols dou-
Atlanta.—Force is being put behind
a bill to be brought before the legis
lature this year, providing for a com
plete reorganization and enlargement
of powei’3 of the Georgia Railroad
Commission under the name of the
Georgia Public Service Commission,
the levying of a license fee on all cor
porations under the jurisdiction of the
commission to provide foi f its mainte
nance and the raising of the sala
ries of commissioners to $6,000 a year.
Another innovation to be proposed is
that corporations make their annual
tax returns to the commission instead
of the state comptroller general. It
is pointed out that inasmuch as the
commission is charged with the duty
of fixing rates, that it should appro
priately be given the authority to as-
certian and fix values of # corporation
properties upon which rates are has
ed, and which are now computed by
the comptroller general. The present
name of the railroad commissoin, it
is maintained, is a misnomer, and
has been since 1007, when the pow
ers and duties of the commission were
enlarged to cover the local utilities,
such as electric light and power com
panies, gas companies, telephone com
panies, etc. The name, Georgia Public
Service Commission, is in line with
the names of such commissions in
other states, which have the same
jurisdiction and powers. Since its cre
ation in 1S87 the commission has been
handicapped by lack of sufficient help
to properly and efficiently carry on
its work. To remedy this situation
it is proposed that a proper number
of field examiners, inspectors, engi
neers, etc., be provided to go annual
ly, at least, to every plant in the state
over which the commissino has juris
diction to see that it is being econom
ically operated in the interest of the
public, examine into the character
and complaints of communities, and
see if a remedy cannot be found to
take care of the situation,
TREATY HANDEDTO GERMANY
Outline Of Concession That Have
Been Made By Allies
And Associates
UNITED STATES LABOR
BALKS AT RECOGNIZING
SOVIET GOVERNMEN -
Federation Convention Refucss Rec
ognition—Wants United States
Troops Out Of Russia
, J Atlantic City, N. J.—Amid general
uproar delegates attending the con
tention here of the American Feder
ation of Labor refused to endorse rec
ognition^ of soviet Russia,
j Discussion of Bolshevism develop;
ed when the resolutions committee
. • reported a resolution asking with-
r drawal from Russia of American sol
diers, but refused to report others
demanding recognition of soviet Rus-
sia and lifting of the blockade of
. Russian ports. The committee re-
; fused' to endorse recognition of the
;jj’ “soviety or any other form of gov-
t eminent in Russia until the people
of that country, by constituent or oth
er form, of national assembly, shall
have established'' a truly democratic
foijra .of .government.’’
Suffrage Fight Due In Legislature
Atlanta.—Probably one of the most
important bills to come before the
legislature is the Susan B. Anthony
bill, which proposes to put Georgia
on record as favoring an amendment
to the federal constitution, giving suf
frage to women, i t is reported that |
th|s measure will be supported by a ‘
member of the Fulton delegation. Re
ports also come that efforts will he
made to put the measure through
both houses on the first business day
in the saipe manner the prohibition
bill was put through last year. In
this plan the supporters of the meas
ure are bound to meet obstacles, for
the conservative members of both
branches are planning to put off the
fight on the suffrage bill until other
measures they consider of more im
portance to Georgia have been brought
up.
Macon Firemen Call For Two Shift3
Macon. —. The Macofl city, firemen
, :kave served notice on the mayor and
pouncil that if they'do not grant them
a double-platoon, system which gives
the men twelye vifoiirs off after twelve
hours’ dutyi they will adopt other
means of Seeing: that the system is
- put" into' effect ,
All Crops Bqt Cotton In Good Shape
Atlanta.—The state department of
J agriculture in its weekly letter reports
I crop conditions are such as to' com-
: mand good prices for products the
! coming fall, but that there has been
j a material deterioration in cotton the
I last two or three weeks. “Cool weath-
| er and showers have been favorable
| to the excessive growth of grains,”
| says the report, “while cotton growth
I has been retarded. Reports to the
j department show there has been a ma-
! terial reduction in cotton acreage, and
j that throughout the Southeastern and
! Southwestern portion of the state the
[ boll weevil is active and Will do much
damage.” •
Versailles.—The reply of the allied
and associated governments to Ger
many counter-proposals to the peace
treaty and a revised copy of the peace
treaty are in the hands of Count von
Brockdorff-hantzau, who left on his
way to Weimar, there to present to
the German national assembly the
final word of the victors in the war.
Few changes have been made iu
the revised peace treaty. Thp origi
nal contentions of the allied and as
sociated powers have virtually been
maintained intact. Five days was
the allotted period originally fixed
for the Germans to answer yes or no
to the demands of the allien. But
two dans, add;', onal have been grant
ed'because of the insistence of the
German delegation that not sufficient
time had been lalowed for proper con-
siderati'ui of the revised terms. This
will extend the time limLation to
Monday, June 23.
If Germany’s reply is yes, the trea-
y v/ill be immediately signed; if Ger
many declines to accede to the de
mands the armistice will be automat-
cally terminated and the allied armed
force:; will take whatever steps uu /
deem requisite to the occasion.
With the revised treaty, containing
Interlineations in red ink, where the
changes had been made in it, was a
covering note, written by Premier Cle-
menceau,-president of the peace con
ference.
The'covering note severely casti
gates Germany for protesting against
the treaty on the ground that the
treaty conflicts with the terms of the
armistice. M. Clemenceau says Ger
many fails to understand the position
she occupies today in the estimation
of the world for being responsible for
a war which was “the greatest’ crime
against humanity and' the freedom of
the peopel that any nation calling it
self civilized has ever consciously
committed.”
Without ostentation Paul Dutasta.
general secretary of the peace confer
ence, placed the revised draft of the
treaty and the note in the hands of
Cermnn Legation Secretary Simon
and Baron von Loersncr, with whom
M. Dutasta held a conversation lasting
for soveral minutes, explaining the na
ture of the instrument t.nd the length
of time allotted for the Germans to
reply, Herr Simon protested against
the short time given Germany to make
known her intentions,
Theft Of 06,660 in Bonds Solved
Atlanta.—A story that would have
held the interest of old Jesse James
himself is that tlod by the postoffice
inspectors here of hew, with the as
sistance of police and detectives in
some dozen cities, they ran down clue
after clue and finally solved the mys-.
tery of approximately $50,000 worth
of Liberty Bonds that disappeared
from safes in Georgia during the last
nine months, along with a substantial
amount of cash and a not inconsider
able number of War Savings Stamps.
The climax of it all being that two
men are now held in Fulton tower, one
woman is out one $6,000 bond and an
other man who is held in Missouri is
claimed here upon his freedom.
No 24
- Fertilisers
FOR
PEACH TREES AND FALL 8* AW
We are prepared to furnish acid Phosphate Raw
Bone Meal, Ground Cattle Tankage’ Machine Dried
Fish Scrap, meriuan Murate of Potas, Cotton Seed
Me{ I and ah grades of ready mixed fertilers.
rite us for prices.
Heard. Brothers,
MACON, GEORGIA.
W. O. Kinney, 1 L. J. Horton.
W. O. KINNEY & CO.
SUCCESAORSTO B. T. ADAMS & CO.
- Cotton Factors. -
614 Thlrdt Street, Macon, Ga,
Farmers Supplies. Mules,
MLIZERS AND
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, COTTON FACTORS
\ /
Macon, Ga.
Cotton, Mules, Fertilizers
Wagons, Bagging, Ties
Money to Loan
on Farm Lamia in Houston County a' L)w Llitj of, takers*
III you wrat money quick wr ite orca^l
Hatcher-Turpin Co.
5 23 Mulberry St. Macon, Georgia
-Tho swcllest line of suit cases and
bags ever shown in this
traveling
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octlon just arrived. L. M. Paul.
: White and black tennis oxfords, to
* rest your feet in this psacH season.
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Seek Money For Georgia Memorial
Atlanta.—It has- developed that the
forthcoming Georgia legislature will
be vigorously urged by the federal
government to make an appropriation
for a state memorial and three monu
ments in the Vicksburg national mil
itary park. The Vicksburg commis
sion of the war department is earn
estly. beginning a campaign for that
purpose, and the .measure will be
urged as an “appropriation to com
memorate on the battlefield the devo
tion to duty, study, patriotism and
iaithful service of the Georgia sol
diers in the Vicksburg operations.”,
COAL; COAL; CO AL;
Dont forget, this important
matter, we will begin to deliver
Blue Gem Lump and Montev-
allo Lump Coal in June, a nd the
orders will be filled in the order
in which they are taken. Get
your order in early and b e as
sured of getting the best coal and
getting it before the price
advances. . ' 4
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